David is originally from Nyanza in the southern province of Rwanda. As a statistician, he evaluated poverty elimination and economic development programs at Rwanda's National Institute of Statistics. David has just begun a master's degree program in statistics at USM so that he might return to meaningful work for which he has a passion, here in Maine. During this interview David speaks about the stigma that surrounds the lives of homosexual people in Rwanda today. He has had the courage to get himself to a safe place, sort out his situation, and then share it with others publicly.